On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:
Hi all,
I've been hunting around for a nice backup system that will allow me to
backup a remote server to DVD. I was looking at Bacula, which according
to its manual seems about the perfect solution (if a bit unweildy), but
in actual fact doesn't support DVD writing except in CVS. I haven't
really looked into Amanda, but DVD writing seems to be a bit of a hack,
no? Currently I'm using flexbackup over SSH, but that requires nanual
intervention to actually write the archives to DVD, and restoration is
difficult.
Does anyone do this on a regular basis? What can people recommend?
Many thanks,
Chris
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Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net
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Hi Chris,
this is just a thought, as I don't know if it suits you at all, but you
could do something like:
ssh user@remotehost dd if=/dev/hda1 | mkisofs -stream-media-size \
2288576 -- | growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0
Many things can be changed here. The odd number is 2kB sectors, the capacity
of the DVD (actually the DVD I currently have in the drive). If you want
to pursue this path further, I can improve this script, e.g. not
make a backup of a whole partition, but selected files, bzip2, etc...
Hth,